The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-25

der water. No street-cars were running
and the schools had been closed.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th the
FredericktoWn (Mo.) section was disturb
ed by heavy shock of earthquake.
JOHN BAUGHMAN, aged eighty-seven
years. and his wife, aged eighty five years,
persisted by asphyxiation in their burning
house at Dalton, O., on the 18th.
THROUGHOUT the Northwest the worst
snow-storm and blizzard Of the season pre-
vailed on the 18th.
THE doors of the Merchants National
Bank of Deadwood, D. T., were closed on
the 10Th. Liabilities, s425, 900.
A FIRE almost entirely destroyed the vii
lage of Thompson, Mo-, on the 10Th.
DURING the two weeks ended on the 18th
over two thousand persons had taken the
pledge in the Francis Murphy meetings in
Chicago.
AT Cincinnati on the 18th Mrs. Matilda
Warren was murdered by a man named
Edward Jordan. She was wheeling her
child when the rufian upset the carriage
and upon being demonstrated with shot.
her and made his escape
A SCHOONER on the st. Johns river was.
lifted out of the water six miles below
jacksonville Fla, on the goth by whirl-
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sized. Her crew consisted of five men, and
all were lost.
The st. Louis Council has passed an or
dinance making eight hours legal days
work for city laborers.
THE recent storm along the Rocky
Mountain range from the British line to
New Mexico was believed to have caused
| the death Of twenty-five per cent. of the
| fpo fro nov
| to Lincoln saw beeves buried to their
heads in the snow.
AT Butte, M. T., all the silver and cop
per mines were closed on the Goth ON ac-
count of snow blockade Over four
| thousand men were idle.
| MORMON missionaries named Smith and
| Young were busily at work on the 10th in
Garrett County, Nd, in barn fixed up by
a farmer.
| On the Dist Alexander Beasley (colored),
of Piqua O., killed his wife and then took
| his own life Domestic troubles were the
| cause
| THE resignation of Judge Samuel Treat,
of the United States District Court for the
Eastern district of Missouri, was an
nounced on the 21st, to take effect March g.
| BUSINESS men of Minneapolis have ten
| dered to the State of Minnesota capitol
site and building, the latter to cost $2000,-
! COO
THE ice in the Detroit river gorged at
Crosse Point, Mich, on the 21st and prop
erty worth $4,000 was swept away.
THE failure is reported of John A. Rem
| shaw, prominent cattle dealer of New
| Orleans, for $112,000
| THE death of Hon. Alfred Brown, Repub-
lican member of the lower house of the Il
| linois Legislature from the Forty fourth
district, occurred at Springfield on the
Dist, at the age of fifty eight years.
THE sale is reported of Lookout Mount
| ain, at Chattanooga, Tenn, celebrated as
the scene of the battle among the clouds.
A railroad company was the purchaser.
ADvICEs of the 21st from Butte, NJ IT,,
place the loss of cattle during the season
at fifty per cent. The Hay Brothers lost
forty thousand sheep in one storm. The
loss of life would probably reach twenty
five persons.
THE training stables at the Council Bluffs
(Ia.) tracks were destroyed by fire on the
21st, dozen valuable thoroughbreds per-
ishing in the flames.
i Mrs. WILLIAM F. FISHER, of Louisville,
KY, committed suicide on the 21st owing to
lies circulated about her by her husbands
parents.
On the 21st the defalcation of Warden
| Howard, of the Southern Indiana Peniten-
tiary, was placed at $150,000
The death of General James Lorraine
Geddes, distinguished veteran of the late
war. occurred on the 21st at Ames, Ia.